On 01-Oct-98 Hubert Feyrer spoke unto us all:
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# On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
# > For example.. If I smoke perl, I should be able to specify -R and blast
# > everything that depends on perl. I doubt you want to go in the other
# > direction.
#
# I want: Tell it to nuke perl-Tk, and it will go and nuke off perl, Tk,
# tcl, ... IF they aren't needed by something else (hence the "bottom up"
# approach")
Thats bizzare.. but I can see no reason not to put it in.. I would label that
"top down" however...
# > meta-pkgs are good, assuming they work. I'm not convinced ours really do,
# > because they dont pkg_delete recursively.
#
# You're making the same mistake as Jonathan & Jim here: just because the
# existing tools don't provide a feature doesn't mean the underlying data
# structure doesn't provide it.
Thats very true. When I said that, what I really should have said was:
pkg_delete doesn't DTRT, the pkg formats do. I was evaluating our meta-pkg's
as a whole, from the enduser POV.
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